Off to a Good Start

We had the best weather for our annual New Year's Day hike. Nearly 60 degrees! We went to Scott's Run in McLean. The hike takes you out to a small waterfall that runs into the Potomac. We were feeling ambitious and decided to do the whole loop which ended up being close to 3 miles. Not a particularly long hike, unless you're a small child. Amelia and Elsa did really well for the first half but struggled towards the end. But they survived (Amelia claims she is NOT doing that hike again) and had a lot of fun throwing rocks into the river. It was a bit scary along part of the hike that took us along a cliff. The path was very narrow and muddy so we were happy when the trail headed back into the woods. There were quite a few people doing the shorter walk from the parking lot to the waterfall so one benefit of doing the whole loop was that we had the rest of the trail all to ourselves (especially helpful when certain members of our group had to go to the bathroom).

I was happy to have our new Canon PowerShot on the hike. We finally replaced our old one that died and as much as I love my DSLR, it's nice to have something I can throw in my pocket again.

Oliver all dressed up for the hike (he slept through the whole thing):







(Amelia picked out this gigantic walking stick which was more trouble than it was useful. We finally managed to ditch it.)























Ben rang in the New Year with pink eye. Luckily it has cleared up now and he managed to not spread it to any of us.